Measure for Measure"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: |
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... characters , and much less directly responsible for their behaviour , than in the novella . When the play opens the brother is in prison under sentence of death , but the atmosphere is not sombre . The podestà grumbles because justice ...
... characters , and much less directly responsible for their behaviour , than in the novella . When the play opens the brother is in prison under sentence of death , but the atmosphere is not sombre . The podestà grumbles because justice ...
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... characters behave in any way he wished , so that their actions can always be attributed to them as individuals and interpreted as evidence of their innermost natures . But it could be argued that Shakespeare's elaborations of an ...
... characters behave in any way he wished , so that their actions can always be attributed to them as individuals and interpreted as evidence of their innermost natures . But it could be argued that Shakespeare's elaborations of an ...
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... characters in the play make their way rather nervously past the law , ' As mice by lions ' ( 1.4.64 ) , hoping not to be noticed by it . There is little sense of the law as just and equitable , carefully allocating graded sentences ...
... characters in the play make their way rather nervously past the law , ' As mice by lions ' ( 1.4.64 ) , hoping not to be noticed by it . There is little sense of the law as just and equitable , carefully allocating graded sentences ...
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